JEREMY M. WEINSTEIN Department of Political Science Stanford University Encina Hall West, Room 100 Stanford, CA 94305 650-736-1224 jweinst@stanford.edu PRESENT POSITIONS Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, 2009-Present. Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, 2011-Present. Ford-Dorsey Director, Center for African Studies, 2011-Present. Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 2012-Present Co-Director, Program on Liberation Technology, CDDRL, 2011-Present Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development, 2004-present. PREVIOUS POSITIONS Director for Development and Democracy, National Security Council, The White House, 2009-2011. Member, National Security Policy Working Group, Presidential Transition Team, 2008. Member, Foreign Assistance Agency Review Team, Presidential Transition Team, 2008. Member, State Department/Foreign Assistance Pre-Transition Team, 2008. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, 2004-2009. Research Fellow, Center for Global Development, 2003-2004. Research Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, Brookings Institution, 2002-2003. Visiting Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2002. Visiting Scholar, Development Economics Research Group, World Bank, 2002. EDUCATION Harvard University: Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government, 2003. Harvard University: M.A. in Political Economy and Government, 2001. Swarthmore College: B.A., High Honors, in Political Science, Economics, and Public Policy, 1997. HONORS Karl Deutsch Award, presented annually to a scholar under age 40, or within ten years of defending his or her dissertation, who is judged to have made, through a body of publications, the most significant contributions to the study of international relations and peace research (2013) Gregory Luebbert Prize for Best Book in Comparative Politics (2010) 1
Heinz Eulau Award for Best Article in the American Political Science Review (2008) William Riker Prize for Best Book in Political Economy (2008) Michael Wallerstein Award for Best Article in Political Economy (2008) Dean s Award for Distinguished Teaching in the First Years of Teaching (2008) African Politics Conference Group Award for Best Article (2007) Gregory Luebbert Prize for Best Article Published in Comparative Politics (2007) Sage Prize for Best Paper in Comparative Politics Presented at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2005) Joseph Levenson Memorial Teaching Award, Awarded to the Outstanding Teaching Fellow at Harvard University (2000) Derek Bok Certificate for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University (2000) The Ivy Award, Outstanding Graduating Senior, Swarthmore College (1997) Phi Beta Kappa (1997) The Dean s Award for Service, Swarthmore College (1997) Sara Kaign Cooper Scholarship, Outstanding Junior, Swarthmore College (1996) Member of the All-College Academic Second Team, U.S.A. Today Scholarship Competition (1996) RESEARCH INTERESTS Civil War, Ethnic Politics, Political Economy of Development, Democracy and Accountability, Africa BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner) (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2009) Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research (Jointly co-authored with an NAS Panel) (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008). Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007). On the Brink: Weak States and US National Security (Washington, DC: The Center for Global Development, 2004). ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS Peer-Reviewed State-Building from the Outside In (with S. Krasner). Annual Review of Political Science (forthcoming). 2
Field Experiments and the Political Economy of Development (with M. Humphreys). Annual Review of Political Science (2009). Who Fights? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War (with M. Humphreys). American Journal of Political Science (April 2008). Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner). American Political Science Review (November 2007). Demobilization and Reintegration (with M. Humphreys). Journal of Conflict Resolution (August 2007). Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War (with M. Humphreys). American Political Science Review (August 2006). Resources and the Information Problem in Rebel Recruitment. Journal of Conflict Resolution (August 2005). Non-Peer Reviewed Defunding Dissent: Restrictions on Aid to NGOs, Journal of Democracy (April 2013). Transforming Multilateralism: Innovation on a Global Stage, Stanford Social Innovation Review (February 2013). The Benefits of a Big Tent: Opening Up Government in Developing Countries (with J. Goldstein), UCLA Law Review Discourse (November 2012). Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion After Civil War: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia (with J. Fearon and M. Humphreys), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings (May 2009). Why Are Co-Ethnics Believed to be More Trustworthy? (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner). In Karen Cook, Margaret Levi, and Russell Hardin (editors), Whom Can We Trust? How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible (Russell Sage Foundation, 2009). Assessing Progress toward Demobilization and Reintegration in Sierra Leone (with M. Humphreys). In Robert Muggah (editor). In Securing Protection: Reconsidering Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (Routledge Press, 2009). Better Institutions, Not Partition. (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner), Foreign Affairs (July/August 2008). 3
It has been difficult to find evidence of democracy s economic dividends: Comment on Miguel. Boston Review (May 2008). Toward More Policy-Relevant Research on Civil War Severity. (with B. Lacina). APSA-CP Newsletter (Summer 2007). Africa s Revolutionary Deficit. Foreign Policy (July/August 2007). Rebuilding Weak States (with Stuart Eizenstat and John Edward Porter). Foreign Affairs (January/February 2005). The Civil War in Mozambique (with L. Francisco). In Paul Collier and Nicholas Sambanis (editors), Economic Models and Case Studies of Civil War. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2005. A New Threat of Terror in the Western Hemisphere. SAIS Review (Winter/Spring 2003). The Structure of Rebel Organizations: Implications for Post-Conflict Reconstruction. Research Dissemination Note 4, Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit, World Bank, June 2002. Mozambique: A Fading U.N. Success Story. Journal of Democracy (January 2002). Africa s Scramble for Africa: Lessons of a Continental War. World Policy Journal (Summer 2000). Service Learning as Democratic Education in South Africa and the United States. (with M. Mendel Reyes) Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (Fall 1996). OTHER MANUSCRIPTS AIDS, Security, and Social Stability, 2004. Autonomous Recovery and International Intervention in Comparative Perspective, 2004. Community Based Reintegration in Aceh: Assessing the Impacts of BRA-KDP (with P. Barron, M. Humphreys, and L. Paler), 2009. Development Aid and Collective Action Capacity: Results from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia (with J. Fearon and M. Humphreys), 2013. Development Assistance, Institution Building, and Social Cohesion after Civil War: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Liberia (with J. Fearon and M. Humphreys), 2009. 4
Ethnic Identifiability: An Experimental Approach (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner), 2008. Group Preferences or Group Strategies? Untangling the Determinants of Successful Collective Action Among Gender and Ethnic Groups (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner), 2008. Measuring the Economic Impact of Civil War (with K. Imai), 2000. Placing and Passing: Evidence from Uganda on Ethnic Identification and Deception (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner), 2008. Policing Politicians: Citizen Empowerment and Political Accountability in Africa (with M. Humphreys), 2013. Social Focal Points (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner), 2008. Speaking Truth to Power: The Effectiveness of Transnational Citizen Pressure Campaigns (with J. Kelley), 2012. Transparency and Spin: How Political Communication Reinforces (or Undermines) Political Accountability (with G. Gordon and M. Humphreys), 2013. What the Fighters Say? A Survey of Ex-Combatants in Sierra Leone (with M. Humphreys), 2004. SELECTED PROFESSIONAL TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS Development Assistance and Collective Action Capacity: Results from a Field Experiment in Liberia, presented at the Department for International Development (June 2013). Transparency and Spin: How Political Communication Reinforces (or Undermines) Political Accountability, presented at Experiments in Governance and Politics, University of London (May 2013). Speaking Truth to Power: The Effectiveness of Transnational Citizen Pressure Campaigns, presented at the Princeton-BYU conference on Field Experiments in International Relations (August 2012). Policing Politicians: Citizen Empowerment and Political Accountability in Africa, presented at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (April 2012) and Annual Bank Conference in Development Economics (May 2012) Why Governments Restrict Foreign Support for Civil Society, presented at Yale University (June 2012). 5
Policy Perspectives on Democracy Promotion: The Arab Spring and Beyond, presented at Stanford University (October 2011), Princeton University (November 2011), and the University of Minnesota (April 2012). Terrorism, Governance, and Development, presented at DFID (March 2009). Development Assistance, Institution Building, and Social Cohesion after Civil War: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Liberia, presented at the Center for Global Development (March 2009). Can Outsiders Build Cohesion After Civil War, presented at Princeton University (October 2008). Insurgent State-Building, presented at the University of Washington (May 2008) and Stanford University (June 2008). Placing and Passing: Evidence from Uganda on Ethnic Identification and Deception (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner), presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2007). Policing the Politicians: Citizen Empowerment and Political Accountability in Africa (with M. Humphreys), presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2007), Stanford University (October 2007), the University of Chicago (January 2008), and the University of Cape Town (May 2009). Social Science and the Rollout of ART in Africa (with S. Jayachandran and H. Thirumurthy), presented at the University of Zimbabwe (February 2007). The Co-Ethnic Advantage: Diversity and the Impediments to Collective Action (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner), presented at New York University (February 2008), the Summer Institute in Political Psychology (July 2007), the Summer Institute in Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (July 2007), and a day-long workshop on book manuscript at Yale University (December 2006). AIDS, Security, and Social Stability, presented at Stanford University (November 2006) and Yale University (October 2006). Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner), presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2006), the Center for Global Development (July 2006), Makerere University (June 2006), Stanford University (June 2006), MIT (May 2006), UC Davis (April 2006), and UC Berkeley Department of Economics (April 2006). 6
Who Rebels? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War (with M. Humphreys), presented at McGill (October 2007), the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (April 2006), and UCLA (February 2006). Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War, (with M. Humphreys), presented at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (April 2005), Stanford University Department of Political Science (January 2005), and the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2004). Disentangling the Determinants of Successful Demobilization and Reintegration, (with M. Humphreys), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2005) and the University of California, San Diego (March 2005). Autonomous Recovery and International Intervention in Comparative Perspective, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2005), Stanford University (October 2004), the International Food Policy Research Institute (July 2004), and Oxford University (June 2004). Group Preferences or Group Strategies? Untangling the Determinants of Successful Collective Action Among Ethnic and Gender Groups, (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2004) and the Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes, University of Wisconsin (May 2004). Ethnic Identifiability: An Experimental Approach, (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2004) and the Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes, University of Wisconsin (May 2004). Ex-Combatants and Post-Conflict Reconstruction. Presentation at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis Workshop on Post-Conflict Reconstruction (December 2003). Resources and the Information Problem in Rebel Recruitment, presented at the Rockefeller Foundation and University of British Columbia Workshop on Curbing Human Rights Violations by Non-State Armed Groups (November 2003). Rebel Atrocities, presented at the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethno- Political Conflict (July 2003). Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence, presented at the World Bank (June 20080, the Institute for Qualitative Research Methods (January 2007), Stanford University (February 2003), Emory University (December 2002), Columbia University (December 2002), University of Michigan (December 2002), University of Pennsylvania (November 2002), and Cornell University (November 2002). 7
The Industrial Organization of Violence, presented at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University (November 2002) and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University (October 2002). The Construction and De-Construction of the NRA/UPDF, presented at the Conference on Uganda sponsored by the National Intelligence Council and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the State Department (October 2002). Ethnic Identity, Collective Action, and Conflict: An Experimental Approach, (with M. Humphreys and D. Posner), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2002). The Structure of Rebel Organizations, presented at the Fund for Peace, Conflict Prevention Project (July 2002) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (July 2002). External Actors as a Source of War and Peace. (with L. Francisco) Presented at the United Nations Studies Program, Yale University (April 2002). When Revolutionaries Become Killers: Sources of Violence in Civil War. Distinguished Lecture in African Studies, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (April 2002). The Civil War in Mozambique, presented at a conference on the Economics of Political and Common Violence, World Bank Development Economics Research Group and PRIO, Oslo, Norway (June 2001). FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Academic Fellowships Alfred H. and Winifred Brown Faculty Fellow (2008) Center for International Development Summer Research Fellowship (2003) Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, Foreign Policy Studies (2002-03) Young Africanist Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center (2002) Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University (2000-01) Center for International Development Summer Research Fellowship (1999) Jacob Javits Graduate Research Fellowship (1997-2002) J. Roland Pennock Fellowship in Public Affairs (1994) Eugene Lang Opportunity Scholarship for Social Change (1993-97) Research Grants Hewlett Foundation (2012-2013) Department of Defense, Minerva Research Initiative (2008-2013) Hewlett Foundation (2008-2011) 8
Australian Aid and Center for Global Development (2007-2011) Hewlett Grant, Institute for International Studies at Stanford (2006) Undergraduate Research Program, Stanford University (2006) Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies, Stanford (2006) Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (2006) Folke Bernadotte Academy, Sweden (2005) Hewlett Grant, Institute for International Studies at Stanford (2005) Undergraduate Research Program, Stanford University (2005) Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (2004) Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Conference Center (2004) Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant (2003-05) Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant (2003-04) Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (2003) Earth Institute (Columbia University) Research Grant (2003) FIELD RESEARCH Sierra Leone, Exploratory Field Work (March 2013) Uganda, Qualitative Interviews (March 2013) Liberia, Exploratory Field Work (March 2012) Uganda, Survey and Survey Experiment (September October 2008, 2010) Liberia, Survey and Experimental Research (March 2008, Summer 2008) Indonesia, Field Experiment and Survey (Summer 2007) Zimbabwe, Field Experiment and Survey (February 2007) Liberia, Survey Research (March - April 2006) Liberia, Field Research (January 2006) Uganda, Experimental Economics Research (May August 2005) Haiti, Exploratory Survey Research (December 2004) Sierra Leone, Survey Research (Summer 2003, Summer 2004) Uganda, Mozambique, and Peru, Dissertation Field Research (September 2000 January 2002) Zambia and Zimbabwe, Summer Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship (Summer 1999) Kenya, Senior Undergraduate Thesis Research (Summer 1996) TEACHING INTERESTS Comparative Politics: African politics, political economy of development, ethnic politics, political economy of disease International Relations: civil war, international relations of Africa Methodology: qualitative methods, field research, experimental methods TEACHING EXPERIENCE Stanford Undergraduate 9
Introduction to Comparative Politics. A lecture course introducing undergraduates to the study of comparative politics. Contemporary African Politics. A seminar for freshman on political and economic change in Sub-Saharan Africa. Political Economy of Disease: AIDS in Historical Perspective. A seminar for advanced undergraduates focused on the political and economic implications of epidemics and the politics of governmental responses to disease. Stanford Graduate African Civil Wars: A Research Seminar. A seminar for advanced graduate students interested in theoretical and empirical work on the micro-politics of conflict. Comparative Political Analysis. A seminar designed to introduce graduate students to current methodological standards and assist them in developing research projects that meet those standards. Qualitative and Field Methods. A seminar for advanced graduate students focused on ethnographic and interview methods, survey research, sub-national data collection, and experimental methods. The Dynamics of Change in Africa. A seminar for graduate students that covers historical and contemporary research on African political economy and development. Stanford Undergraduate Theses Elizabeth Knudson (Firestone Medal for Excellence) Alexandra Broner Lauren Falcao (Firestone Medal for Excellence) Sherri Hansen (William J. Perry Prize) Derek Kilner (Firestone Medal for Excellence) Nicholai Lidow (Firestone Medal for Excellence) Lani Marsden Sok Tea (Firestone Medal for Excellence) Stanford Graduate Thesis Committees Claire Adida (UCSD) Rikhil Bhavnani (Wisconsin) Dara Cohen (Minnesota) Jesse Driscoll (UCSD) Desha Girod (Georgetown) Jessica Gottlieb (Texas A&M) 10
Oliver Kaplan (Princeton, Post-Doctoral Fellowship; University of Denver) Bethany Lacina (Rochester) Nicholai Lidow (UCSD, Post-Doctoral Fellowship) Avital Livny Yotam Margalit (Columbia) Melina Platas Amanda Robinson (Ohio State) Natan Sachs (Brookings Institution) Jacob Shapiro (Princeton) Julia Tobias (World Bank; Government of Indonesia) UNIVERSITY SERVICE Member, University Faculty Senate (2011-Present) Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science (2012-Present) Ford-Dorsey Director, Center for African Studies (2007 2008, 2011-Present) Committee for African Studies (2004-Present) Co-Director, Program on Liberation Technology, CDDRL (2011-Present) FSI Senior Fellow Search Committee (2011-Present) ICA, Executive Committee (2007-2008, 2011-Present) Haas Center for Public Service Faculty Advisory Board (2005 Present) Chair, John Gardner Fellowship Selection Committee (2012-Present) Departmental Search Committee (2011-2012) Dean s Committee on the Future of ICA (2007-2008, 2011-2012) Bing Overseas Studies Program Oversight Committee (2007-2008) Convenor, Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science (2005 2007) Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Selection Committee (2005) Stanford-in-Government Fellowship Selection Committee (2005) CDDRL Pre- and Post-Doctoral Selection Committee (2005) Graduate Admissions Committee (2004-2007) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Referee for American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Political Studies, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, National Science Foundation, Security Studies, the World Bank, World Development, and World Politics. BOARD MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of the Board of Trustees, MySociety (2013-Present) Member of the IBP Council, International Budget Partnership (2012-Present) Member of the Board of Trustees, Global Integrity (2012-Present) 11
Life Member, Council on Foreign Relations (2012-Present) Member of the Board of Trustees, Swarthmore College (1999-2003) Committees: Social Responsibility, Development, Academic Affairs Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations (2003-2008) Founder and Member, Experiments in Governance and Politics Research Network (EGAP) National Steering Committee, Working Group in African Political Economy Member, Committee to Evaluate U.S. Democracy Assistance Programming, National Academy of Sciences (2007-2009) Member, Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes (LiCEP) (2000-2004) Member, American Political Science Association Faculty Affiliate, Center for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law Faculty Affiliate, Center for International Security and Cooperation Faculty Affiliate, Center for African Studies Faculty Affiliate, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity 12